[…] in the educational system, and with religion in science. These contact/conflict points are where the secular cultural world does its business. Religion struggles to be a part of it, to influence and control behavior. […]
[…] over her shoulder, not only looking for their names or themselves on her Mac screen or on the pages between the grainy covers of the books, but searching for her secrets as well. Looking […]
I have often heard of the lesson with the milk and the ink drop: Sister Smith drips, almost tenderly, the midnight blue ink into the whiteness. I have never seen it done, but I […]
[…] is a “childhood notion that it’s possible for things to stay the same, that everything in this world does not have to become old and tired and undone” (18). This collapse of the old […]
[…] was largely occupied with expanding the school’s size and its academic reputation. His goal of creating the world’s most important university depended, he believed, on controlling not only academic and political life for faculty, […]
[…] way your hand moves to catch a ball. If God didn’t answer prayers, I thought, then the world was a lie, but that couldn’t be true because I was kneeling on it. I could […]
[…] re ally perfectly natural. The point is that the Magic Theory asserts that baptism affects the natural world directly and thereby attains its effectiveness. This is different than the Psychological Theory that asserts that […]
[…] the voices said, and Adam followed them. From the ledge he would be able to see the world as God did—from above, from a distance. He followed the course of the stream, up the […]
[…] .Strong and able women today fill responsible posts in industry, government, education, and the professions. The whole world looks with respect to the Prime Minister of Britain, a woman of demonstrated ability and great […]
[…] spiritual qualification” (emphasis mine). He seems to argue that intellectuals have no role in the Church: “The world of faith is a world they know nothing about”; they are “without the Holy Ghost and […]